Jim Coleman Recipes

Buckwheat Blinis with Caviar & Smoked Salmon

For this recipe you will need:

• 2 cups whole milk
• 1 tb sugar
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tbsp. melted butter
• 3 eggs separated
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup buckwheat flour
• Caviar
• Smoked Salmon
• Sour Cream or Creme Fraiche

To prepare this recipe:

Preheat the oven to 400

Warm milk in a saucepot over medium heat. Pour into a large bowl. When lukewarm, add sugar and yeast, mixing well to dissolve yeast. Stir in 1 cup all-purpose flour; cover bowl and set in warm place until dough doubles in volume (about 1-1/2 hour). Combine butter, egg yolks and salt. Stir the dough down and add butter-egg mixture, along with buckwheat flour and 1 cup all-purpose flour. Beat egg whites until stiff, then gently fold into batter. Cook batter, one tablespoonful per blini, on a hot buttered non-stick skillet. Flip blini to brown second side after batter appears set on top. Cover blini with a towel and hold in 200 F oven until serving. Top blini with caviar, smoked salmon & sour cream or creme fraiche.